Input/output, processors, intra-system communication, busses, caches. Addressing and memory hierarchies. Microprogramming, parallelism, and pipelining. Classification and taxonomy of computer architectures. Reduced instruction set computers, pipelining, vector processing, dataflow computers, architecture description languages, firmware engineering.
This course may not be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite(s)
- Computer Engineering 369 and 511 or Software Engineering for Engineers 413.
Sections
This course will be offered next in
Winter 2015.